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We've also included links to the player's wiki page and their character's logs, so you can take a refresh peek at what they've been doing. We'll also link to the individual threads from the player pages, so you can go back later and bask when you need it.
No negativity - if you can't say something positive, don't say anything at all, as the saying goes. ;)
If for any reason you'd rather not be included ping Isa or I and we'll quietly remove your thread. Or, if giving feedback publicly is a bit much, you can email the person directly (email addies are available on the player pages).
No time limits - do your best and no love is too small!
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Re: Al
Date: 2022-09-01 08:43 pm (UTC)Artie nodded and settled at the other end of the table. "Yeah. That's where we come in. We - X Force - we do the spy shit but some of what we also do is build cover IDs, that kind of thing. Alibis, you know? What we need you all to do is decide what we do with your life if you go missing. You and Clint are one outlier, because your family knows but for the others? Do we finish their degrees? Send them to an ashram? I don't know. But they can't go missing necessarily so what do we do?" He paused for a moment and then added, "Dead is easier, you know?"
"Dead is easier, unless they come back. Bringing someone back legally, at least as themselves and not as someone else, is a whole other can of worms," Matt pointed out. It was doable, but it was a clusterfuck at best. "And really, our dad's mostly just know about Clint. They know we're working together on stuff, but they kinda assume that I'm safely tucked away in an office. Which....I haven't exactly disabused them off. But I can have that conversation with them so they don't assume," and really, after all these years, Matt wasn't so sure they were actually oblivious. It was just sometimes easier not to discuss things. "The big issue as I see it, are families that might go looking for people. We can keep someone alive and in limbo indefinitely so long as they don't have a missing person's case on them or something."
Yeah, duh. Artie nodded and took a moment to compose his face. His voice, through the synthesiser, was mild. "Exactly. We need all of you to supply us with your desired cover. When - if - you need us to go live, what do we tell your family? The best ones aren't exactly flattering, you know? I can tell Kitty's family she's hooked on heroin in Scotland and decided to go no contact with everyone and keep a few replies running from her phone so no-one goes looking for her, but that might do more long term damage than she wants to her family. You see what I mean?"
He nodded, good, stable, normal people didn't typically go no-contact with their families for no reason. "I think sticking as close to the truth as possible is always best," the fewer lies to remember, after all, "at least when we can. For those that we can't....Kitty takes a job in Scotland studying something involved and remote. Antarctica. There are options, if we work at it."
"For sure." Artie typed, "Just remember, when they give us a list of what they want, there needs to be a reason why they're not responding to texts from their old girlfriend or whatever. If we're not killing your identities, we need to keep you alive and incommunicado in case we have to go live. And we'll cover the rest. When - if - you get back, we'll have a life for you to pick up again."
He paused and then added, "What's it like? On the other side of the wormhole? I mean, this is --" Artie waved expansively at the room, "This isn't our OG universe but it's mostly similar enough, you know? How different is it over there?"
It was his OG universe, to put it in Artie's words. At least, so far as he knew. Typing a few notes into his computer for later, Matt considered, "The world's are....very similar, at least as far as I can tell. To me, it feels off, but not wrong. If there are purple trees though, no one has told me. And Clint's colourblind," and often on comms instead of with them. "I suspect that the further from our own universe we go, the more different things become."
Artie nodded. "I think I might leave a lot of this to you. There's just something about the idea of getting stuck over there that gives me the heebie jeebies, you know? Lotta universes out there and personally, I'm okay with this one. I don't want to try my luck twice."